Dickens’s great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin edition This is the novel Dickens regarded as his ‘favourite child’ and is considered his most autobiographical. 

Complete and unabridged. In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Charles Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. 

The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. 

The first of Hermann Hesse’s novels to reflect his new way of thinking about the mind and his interest in the experience of the interior self.